Guys it has ZERO SENSE that an action 17 years afterwards our birth determine who in hell was our father. I could understand that being a Zeus boy we get part of his allure like a trait or the others with each stats. I mean it has sense because part of their own soul ajd skills is in us. But not if we did X OR Y…It is exactly as: LOOK SHE WOULD DRESS LIKE A BANANA IN HALLOWEEN IN THE COLLEGE SO Persefone is your daughter
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Maybe parents instil a a certain subconscious “leaning towards” certain decisions? Making someone’s child more likely to do something? Not that I’m trying to justify it, just trying to bring up a possible reason.
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Zero sense, because that way our character would be programmed and Emo mara said f&$*% to daddy. If he could determine my mentality… there were no choice but being nice
Sort of balance would mean that not over 50% of people will likely chose options that will lead to Poseidon as father. It’s not an unfair outcome, it’s a rigged one. And I could understand if it was intended in the sense of: Well, this option is just more difficult to get. But that it was changed to balance the odds out, indicates that this is not the way it should be.
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I think, rather than have the choice be in killing Saxon, it should be in whether or not you try to get revenge against the sport rival.
It can be attributed to hotheadedness, for example. If you got revenge, you inherited Zeus’s anger management problems and his furious punishments for things. If you didn’t, you inherited Hades’ cooler head and are able to see the bigger picture.
Poseidon can be either because Poseidon is either chill af or super pissy.
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Emotions are not hereditary, my father and my mother are not similarly to me in personality . Also so our morality travel in time to the tri God’s discussion "I foresee she would like tomatoes Poseidon she should be your child
You might not care, but I care about it, if it doesn’t make sense to me, I will point it out. The author can agree with me or not.
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That’s fine. In the end we both think that the way it is seems suboptimal.
There’s still some debate over that, which ties into the nature vs nurture debate. My father and brother have the exact same handwriting, posture, and casual demeanor and my mother and I share our stubbornness and temper, for example.
It’s not a perfect option, but I think that it makes more sense than the inheritable murder/mercy options.
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It’s not really about emotions or personality, per se. It could be about smaller things like mannerisms or inclinations.
My mom once told me that I eat my food the exact same way my biological father did. Considering the fact that I saw him about 5 times my entire life (all in my early childhood and none for a long period of time), I’d say that’s a small example of “hereditary nature”
Granted the inclination to eat rice a certain way is a little bit different from the inclination to murder someone with a knife… Maybe hereditary stuff just work funny for gods? 
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I really doesnt care who is my dad. But the fact that a totally unrelated action 17 years after determine who is my father… Has no sense. And about that in soviet russia genetic evolution it was politically correct say that morality and doing certain labor goes with genes to next generation… So a sarcastic guy Said then why do not women born already touched after million of years
Emotions may be not but if I remember right there are a number of genes associated with impulsivness, lower inhibition threshold, etc. Especially the later could be a reason why someone may be more willing to kill a person. Anyway, as @RanchoJoe already said, genetics in this case are interwind with “magic” so I guess there could be an argument made for the decision to include this choice in the father question. And if we start to say that actions - which are a way how character traits are manifested - should have no influence on the father that’s not that far off from saying that the stats anyway make no sense in the father question, to be honest.
Doesn’t change that it still is rigged to Poseidon’s favor…
If you look at it as the player of the game then yes, you can see it as “my choices 17 years after determines Lavei’s father.”
However, you can look at it from the perspective of someone in the game, within that setting, and say “Lavei’s father is so-and-so, which is why they chose to do this.” Instead of your choice determining the father, it’s the father affecting your MC’s choice. It’s upside-down.
After all, Aphrodite’s kids tend to be flirtatious, Ares’s tend to choose conflict and violence, etc etc. In those cases, the divine parent has quite the effect on the children’s personality.
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Thank you @ReTowers and @Needy. I’ll try to tweak the code again!
Also, I set up the code the way I set it up because Hades is supposed to be
hard to get as a father, for reasons tied into the plot. I wanted the
majority to get Poseidon and Zeus. Don’t dig too deep into the meaning
behind it. It is becoming increasingly difficult to accommodate to everyone
desires; I honestly don’t find that very fair. I made the lineage based on
stats strictly for replayability. I could have easily made it so the MC is
the child of Zeus, like I had planned, but I wanted to add a sense of
unpredictability to the game, so I could add new branches to the later
plot. I’ll consider changing the conditions, but it’s not something that
speaks of your MC as a person; it’s random, at best.
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Write it as you intend, Rohie; it’s your story after all. We can’t expect you to please everyone (Hey! That’s kinda like what Poseidon said!)
I mean, you already chose to gender-lock Aeson so there’s already a precedent there if you choose to lock the parent as well
I’ll just stop wondering what my MC’s future will be like until the final version of the father scene is determined 
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At this point, I am totally okay with Poseidon as my father, and Hades as my uncle. Best of both worlds 
That, and Poseidon needs to have a representative on the Hero trials, else he looks bad in comparison (Demeter lol)
I was also surprised that Santangelo is NOT a son of Poseidon, since he gave off the classic jock impression 
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My totally object to those opinion came from Hitler use of exactly same theory to Genocide millions same as Pol pot and Stalin… Certain people have this emotional and deviants intelligence that carries like a sin to their respective descendants. So wiping them we really are doing a favor to our children…
I really know that no one of you wanted to implied that. But in philosophical laws we have to suffering some of Nazis propaganda cinema documents about races degeneration and how euthanasia is the best way to protect our children genes from mixture . It was the most sick and cruel things I ever seen… so I just can’t help to felt that it is not a good thing . Mengele opinated that way one of reasons why he insisted in test with twins emotional pain… But I suppose here could go well with all the magic stuff
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Yeah the Nazis definitely took the whole heredity thing to an atrocious level and they were wrong to do that. I’m just saying that the real world is quite different from the story’s setting. In the setting of Children of the Gods, the gods could have a lot of influence on their kids.
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Yeah, I know but it is a so dangerous idea in real live that I am so reluctant to it. Nazis were a sin but a proof that their theories are wrong look so many people descent from them being great people and pacific, living in harmony with other races and that.
I can understand that reasoning. If you want specifically Hades to be the most difficult to get as father, you could also lift the connection between killing/not killing the seeker for Zeus, too. That way Poseidon would still be the easiest to get, but Zeus would also be easier to get as Hades. Just a thought, it’s your game, write it like you want. (Just emphasing this in case I came off as too pushy)
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